Word: elizabeth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fighting panic, the Powers of the Dem-ocratic Party try to think of a Republican nominee Al Gore might actually beat in 2000. A vision of the Republican primary campaign appears before them: George W. Bush defects to Cuba. Elizabeth Dole, purely on a whim, drops out to run a bed-and-breakfast in Mendocino County, Calif. With the rest of the field in disarray, Gary Bauer squeaks through in California to take the nomination. Greatly relieved by that vision, the Powers of the Democratic Party get out of bed and go out to raise more money for Al Gore...
Blondes Prefer Gentlemen, Brunettes Too--Redheads Included! 1949 "What kind of girl do you have in mind?...someone who's a cross between June Allyson and Elizabeth Taylor...a gal with a sharp sense of humor, neatly stacked...
...Pankhurst's father was a Manchester manufacturer with radical sympathies. When she was small, she was consuming Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Bunyan and abolitionist materials; her earliest memories included hearing Elizabeth Cady Stanton speak. Her father was keen on amateur theatricals in the home; his daughter later enthralled the suffragists with her oratory and her voice. The young Rebecca West described hearing Mrs. Pankhurst in full cry: "Trembling like a reed, she lifted up her hoarse, sweet voice on the platform, but the reed was of steel and it was tremendous...
...ELIZABETH TAYLOR AND RICHARD BURTON...
...breasts would topple empires before they withered...she was the most sullen, uncommunicative and beautiful woman I had ever seen," said Richard Burton in 1953 of his first look at Elizabeth Taylor. Nine years later, while married to others, he and she began a relationship that enraged the Vatican and caused the gainful employment of hundreds of paparazzi. On the set of Cleopatra, what Liz and Dick called le scandale just went on and on. The public saw them in bathing dishabille, in drunken brawls and other feats of extreme behavior...